I would like to share my opinion on the current n-Deal issue here,
We don't need or fully rely on 123-Agreement with U.S, for 2 reasons,
1. It only gives us a provision to get nuclear materials (fuels, equips, and other technologies) to use in civil applications for which we have more than enough fuels, tech's and requir's for nuclear energy for another 40 yrs.
2. The deal is just a business contract between big private investors in U.S,E.U and some in India, by which it's going to fruitful only for the investors and U.S government at the cost of "OUR" energy & money.
What our India may really need at this moment (not urgently pushed though) is to get in to international practice of safeguarding our civil-only nuclear reactors for which to my understanding, IAEA is providing provisions which doesn't affect our internal affairs/interests on nuclear technology other than civil.
IAEA safeguard standard/framework provides a set of flexible provisions to match with respective countries requirements on nuclear energy safegaurd.
In that i'd found that there are 2 options,"Item specific safeguards agreements" & "Voluntary offer safeguards agreements" which allows the state/country which gets under agreement to categorize their nuclear reactors in to civil/defense, and it's up to the state/country to decide to which set of reactors to come under the IAEA safeguards.
